 Welcome to today's episode of the mindset mentor podcast. I'm your host Rob dial if you have not yet done So hit that subscribe button so that you never miss another podcast episode if you're out there And you love this podcast and give us a rating and review the more positive rating views that we get on those platforms Well, those platforms actually show this podcast to people who have never listened to it before Which allows this podcast to grow and allows us to positively impact more people's lives as well So if you do that, I would greatly greatly appreciate it today We're gonna dive into momentum and how you can find your momentum I think that one of the most under underestimated Underrated pieces of life and success is momentum All too often I find people that start to get momentum into something and then they give up And they start to get momentum into something and then they give up and all too often we give up Right before we start getting a whole lot of momentum On our side to get us where we want to go we give up and then we start something new And then we find something new we work at it for a little while and then we give up And we start something new because we don't have all of the momentum It seems like we're putting in so much effort But we're not getting the results that we want right now and the way I like to think of it the visual I always think about I don't know if you've ever been like me and have like a really shitty car I've had a shitty car before that broke down a lot one of the reasons why I just wanted to make money and be successful is so I could just have a reliable car and I've been on the side of the road before and had to push my car by myself And if you've ever pushed a car before it it hurts. It's hard to get that car moving But once the car is moving it doesn't take a whole lot of effort to keep it moving And so what happens is I think a lot of people give up Before they get quote-unquote the car in their life moving before they get a little bit of momentum on their side And so they get a little bit of momentum tiny bit and then they're like Man, this is so hard. I'm putting in so much effort And then they give up and guess what the car obviously the car is just a metaphor the car Stops and what do we have to do? We have to start pushing the car again And so really what I want you to start focusing on is momentum How can I get this going from because it's always hard to go from 0 to 60 and then it's from 60 to 120 Every single car it's harder to go from 0 to 60 takes a lot more effort takes a lot more Pedal to the metal to go from 0 to 60 then it does to go from 60 to 120 And so that's how life is in your life That's how success is in your life and this relates to so many different places in your life like if you Let's just take fitness. I love fitness as an example And I use it so much in this podcast because fitness is something you can see Physically in your body you can see the physical manifestation based off of what we've been doing in the past Like mindset is great, and I love it obviously I have a podcast called the mindset mentor But you can't physically see Mindset, but you can physically see the way that you've been taking care of yourself And so when we take working out for instance, maybe You haven't worked out in a while. Maybe you haven't worked out ever or very little and you know that you should The first few weeks of working out Let's just be real they're gonna be a bitch. They are you're gonna work and you're not gonna get a whole lot of results that you really want It's gonna be tough It's gonna be more than you've ever you're gonna sweat more than you ever have and you're gonna wake up soar as hell Like I remember one time I didn't work out for over a year because I was so busy in my business And I went and worked out my arms really hard in my arms for those you guys that can't see me And you just listen to podcasts like I could not move my arms below 90 degrees like I could not put them all the way down because it felt like I was ripping my Felt like I was ripping my biceps apart and so sometimes that's how it is where The first few weeks of something like getting the car moving takes a lot It takes more willpower than it does everything else and it's it feels unnatural because it's not what we have been doing But then here's what happens Three weeks in four weeks in you step on the scale and you see a different number than you did before You look in the mirror and you see a little bit of change in your body You know if you're a skinny guy like I was always really skinny guy the first time I saw like a muscle Like literally a a tiny little muscle pop up I was like holy shit. This is working and that little bit got me excited to keep pushing through Sometimes if you lose your first five pounds and you see that number drop on the scale And then this number of the scale is not the most important thing taking care of yourself This is the most important thing, but you see that number drop on the scale. You're like, oh my god This is working. That's your first little bit of momentum and you keep going and you're kind of it's kind of like you get excited About doing this and what happens is at the beginning. It feels very unnatural But it starts to feel more and more natural. You got the momentum the mows on your side And when the momentum is on your side, it becomes harder to stop So imagine pushing you this car and it's so much work getting that car moving, but eventually it's moving It's moving it would be really hard to then run from the back of the car to the front of the car and try to stop The car it's gonna run you over most likely you're not gonna be strong enough to stop it It becomes harder to stop once you start to get that momentum on your side And if you've ever been in a great workout routine, it can become like addicting It could become exciting and you start getting Excited to go to the gym and can you fall off? Yeah, I've done it before I've worked out four five six There was one time in my life for like nine months I was working out seven days a week and it was just I was only going because it was addicting it felt good I felt excited about it Well, I fell off at one point in time that was years ago, right now It's four times a week and sometimes it's three when I'm out of town and it's like I gotta keep the momentum going I don't ever want to go and this is just a tip on momentum I don't ever want to go more than than two days So like if I can't do it on Monday, I have to do it on Tuesday No, no if ands buts bad. I can't go two days without doing it. This is another thing like Waking up early, right? It's hard at first. Oh shit. It's so hard. I'm the type of person I can sleep like too much like I my body for some reason loves sleeping like my best friend A business partner he sleeps like five hours a night and that's all he can do. That's Awesome, I wish I could do that but for me waking up. It's hard like I'm not the type of person It just jumps out. I'm like yippity-doo doll Let's take on the day on the person that the alarm goes off and I'm like fuck I'm deep in sleep like I could stay here for a long time I could sleep for 10 12 hours and be completely fine But when you first decide that you want to start waking up if you normally wake up at 8 And you're like, you know what I want to wake up at 6 so that I have two hours of myself I can create my morning routine. I could do my workouts. I could do whatever is that I want to do It feels very unnatural But then you start waking up and it becomes a little bit easier Becomes a little bit easier and it becomes a little bit easier That's starting to get momentum on your side and then the cars really rolling and you wake up before your alarm And you're like whoa This is actually starting to feel more natural as well and this happens Everywhere in life as you have to search for the momentum in your life and when it's there don't let it stop Starting a business God starting a business. I don't know why people think like being an entrepreneur is the best thing in the world It's hard. It's like wake. I always say Signing up to be an entrepreneur is basically waking up and a signing up to get punched in the face every day Like there's so many challenges so many struggles the first month two months three months six months It can be hard But you're actually starting to change your mind. You're starting to change your routine You're starting to change who you are to become this business or it's become this This entrepreneur and it takes time but eventually you get to a point like I've been running businesses now for 16 years It's not hard to get myself up in and start going immediately and to start working and to get on a team calls and to Go from one zoom call to another to another to another to getting on a podcast and doing all the stuff that I do But it was it was hard At first like really really hard at first nothing new is ever really easy in the beginning and What's crazy about it is that it's usually hard at the beginning and then it gets harder for a little while and then it starts To become much easier Everything is going to be like if you just go into your life and expect that there will be struggle in Everything that you do the first time you do something or as you're starting to build momentum Just expect the struggle and that makes it so much easier versus just thinking Oh, I'm gonna start this new business and everything's gonna be so amazing like if you go into a that mindset I'm gonna be honest with you It's not always going to be amazing and sometimes you're gonna get blindsided with stuff But when you start to feel like the car is moving because sometimes when you start You feel like you're just spinning your tires and the car is not moving at all But when you start to feel a little you get a little win You've got to keep that momentum going and it's much easier to stop At the very beginning that is to stop when you've been doing something for months Like the way I always think of the the visual I always think of that I've said quite a few times in this podcast is if we go and we take a 15 pound bowling Ball and we go to the top of a really tall hill and we just let it go We don't even push it We just let it go and it starts rolling down the hill if you're 10 feet away from where it starts And you put your hand out. It's not really hard to stop that thing when it's gone 10 feet But if you're at the top of a really tall hill and it's 400 yards to the bottom That bowling ball is going to get momentum momentum momentum and there's so much momentum That it becomes hard to actually stop yourself And so you can stop a bowling ball that's 15 pounds 10 feet after it stops rolling or after it starts rolling, right? 400 yards after it's rolling if you put your hand out, it's going to break every bone in your hand That's what we're trying to get our life to is there's so much momentum. There's so much positive momentum There's so much energy around something that stopping it actually feels harder than to continue to keep going Like that's what we want is the going the momentum is so strong on our side that stopping it would be harder That's what we're trying to work for if your life feels like you're stagnant If you feel like you haven't been moving in the in the direction that you want to it is a process If you feel like you've been stagnant most of the time if you feel stagnant in any place in your life The reason why you feel stagnant is because you are not growing in that place You know if your relationship feels stagnant. It's because you're not growing in that relationship Guaranteed you and your partner are not working on making that relationship Better on it's making it more expansive if you feel Like you're stagnant in your business. It's probably because you are not growing You're not learning more. You're not reading the business books. You're not hiring the mentor that would help you You're not getting better as a leader So if you feel like your life is stagnant You've got to search for places to grow to get more momentum on your side because it will be like pushing the car And I always I always want to be moving to be leaning forward versus leaning backwards Because if you take action action always creates more action in action always creates more in action Humans were not meant to be inactive. Have you ever seen? You know if you go to the discovery channel and you see about like the Hadza tribe that's over in Africa They don't just hang out and do nothing all day long Like there's some pretty intense videos of them on hunts and in feeding and providing and Building their structures and a storm will come and then they'll have to rebuild their structures And then they got a hunt again, and then they got a raise their children And they've got to do what they need to do in order to To move along and to be able to keep progressing and growing right? So humans were not meant to be inactive We were not meant to just sit on our couch and just flick our thumb up to see things on a little tiny screen We weren't meant to just lay down all day long on the weekend and then just watch Something on TV watch Netflix or watch football and there's nothing wrong. Just let me say this real quick nothing wrong the Instagram There's nothing wrong with Netflix. There's nothing wrong with football, but it can't be The majority of your life is inaction. We were meant to be active That's the power of finding the momentum though. It's like pushing the car. It's really hard at first Expect that it's not going to be all sunshine and rainbows Expect like you can't hear an Austin. It's been besides today Today's the first time the Sun has been out in the past like five days It was just raining and it was crap weather and just wasn't great all of this stuff. It wasn't good wasn't good But it can't be that way forever It can that be that way forever as well Like you can't always expect that it's gonna be really hard because it won't always be really hard It will get easier. You can't always expect that it's always going to be easy though lots of people though They stop too soon. They stop once they get the ball rolling You have to stop and start again and stop and start again and stop and start again And people get excited at the beginning and then they give up they get a case of what I like to call the I deserve it Oh, I had a great week of sales. I'm gonna take this next week off because I did you know I had such a great week of sales. Oh, I I lost 10 pounds. I deserve to have an extra ice cream I lost 10 pounds I deserve to have my little snack that I want and it starts to and we're actually instead of working in Progressing we're actually Regressing we're going backwards. Oh, you know what I got a I Got a great tax return $5,000. I'm gonna go spend it. I'm gonna go out for a couple extra lunches Whatever it is and what happens is in your bank account goes down and down and down and it goes back to where it was before And so if you want to maintain your current life Fine go for it. I'm assuming though if you listen to podcast You don't want to maintain you want to grow you want to expand you want to become even better in everything that you do You have to if that is you you want to grow and you want to get better You have to find momentum. You have to fight through the hard part But then once the momentum is there you've got to be aware that it's there And you've got to keep working towards it because what would your life look like if you never gave up on that thing That you gave up years ago What would your life look like if you never gave up on that diet and that workout plan that you were doing so well at four years ago, what would your life look like if you didn't give up on that business that was starting to go well But then you got in your own head because you were working too hard or whatever it was What would your life look like if you stopped giving up if you worked through the hard parts if you found the momentum And if you continued to find that momentum and keep pushing and keeping that car going you have a completely different life Well, maybe you did give up on something in the past But if you can find the momentum now and not give up your life will be absolutely 100% unrecognizable to you as you are right now if you can find that thing work towards it find the momentum and just keep the Momentum going so when you find the momentum when you notice the momentum when you feel positive Movement on your side keep it going don't allow it to stop So that's what I got for you for today's episode if you love this episode Please share it on your Instagram stories and tag me in at Rob dial jr. 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